Word: bathed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When, after the award was announced, a reporter tried to stop the scurrying prizewinner for questions, Martin du Card refused to talk. The reporter asked why. For the same reason, explained the author, that he would not let his four-year-old grandson watch him take a bath...
Last week a Birmingham (Ala.) newspaper advertisement read: "Daily baths help you guard against any cold catching. ... At least once a day take a refreshing bath." The advertiser: Birmingham Water Works Co., privately owned...
...trial was that of a Negro butler-chauffeur accused of raping his young socialite employer, Eleanor Strubing, pretty wife of an advertising executive in Greenwich, Conn., suburb of New York City. According to her testimony she found him in her bedroom one evening when she emerged from a shower bath wearing only a towel, was raped thrice in various parts of the house, bound, gagged, threatened with a knife, taken for two automobile rides, finally thrown into an icy reservoir near which she was found hysterical. The Negro's defense was that she had invited his advances. A jury...
Today a poet has replaced Copey as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and the famous bath sponge no more hangs out to dry from the third floor of Hollis every Saturday night. Copey has ripened into a living legend which will remain a part of the college as long as tradition exists. Harvard will not forget the sympathetic mentor who first rubbed out the Harvard indifference between Faculty and students; the instructor of whom John Reed could say "He stimulated generations of men to find color and strength and beauty in books and in the world, and to express...
...President Peter Flynn of C. I. O.'s Industrial Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America. He claimed that many defense workers are turning down overtime work because it costs them so much time and energy to commute to overcrowded cities where they work. He may have been thinking of Bath (Me.) Iron Wofks (destroyers), to which workers are commuting over a 30-60-mile radius. In tiny Sidney (N. Y.), mushrooming with a Bendix aircraft-parts plant, vacant homes have been sought 25 miles away in Norwich, N. Y.* At Charlestown (Ind.), the Government has given...